Mike Doughty vid

And that last post prompted this....

for those w/ no patience, skip to the 40 second mark.

Your Arturo clip du jour

Lame story of the day: I was on the search for a song from a cd of mine that I lost oh-so-long ago. I knew a Brecker brother and Arturo Sandoval played together in it, and simply couldn't find it... that's the lame part. The cool part is that I found a Bobby-McFerrinesque clip of Arturo singing. Here ya go:

Music music music

I'm a music geek and I thought this was worth a share: Today TED posted Machover's TED talk:

Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5 - 4th mvt

One of my favorite orchestral pieces. I had never heard Shostakovich's 5th under Bernstein. I get a little bit of an un-easy feeling at around the three-minute mark. I think this is because I'd like a bit more tempo contrast -- but this is an awesome 'version.' Fantastic conducting decisions all around: